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Swedish power metal heroes Sabaton like a bit of a work-out when they’re on stage, so it makes perfect sense for them to play a gig in a gym!

The somewhat unique endeavour took place at the Må Bättre gym in Falun, Sweden, with the band themselves even going so far as to work out while they were playing! That, friends, is dedication.

Sabaton recently unveiled new album, Heroes!

Recorded at The Abyss near Ludvika, Sweden with Peter Tägtgren, the album drops this May via Nuclear Blast.

“We had the title in mind since before we even recorded [2012 album] Carolus Rex and we already had ideas for artwork years ago,” explains bassist Pär Sundström. “We had a few different ones to choose from, but when we saw this one, we knew it was the right one for this album.”

The frontman explained the creation of the song and its newly adopted meaning in a series of tweets, summarised below:

“I consider Fake Your Death to be the ‘last MCR song’, and to me, it is absolutely the final fully realized collaboration between the members of the band. Oddly, or fittingly, it was written while the Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils and won the Stanley Cup, though this did not inform or inspire the song as I was unaware (along with James and Doug) that this was happening and have only a small interest in sports. After the game, the rest of the band had arrived at the studio where we added elements to its existing structure, fleshing it out some more, and it started to form.

What was not so obvious at the time was that the song was, and would serve as, a eulogy for the band, though I should have known it from the lyrics. I think internally I did, as I felt an odd sense of sadness and loss after hearing back the words on top of the music. I also felt a strange sense of pride in how honest it was, and could not remember a band recording a song of this nature, being so self-aware. Ending felt like something honest, and honest always feels like something new.

So it will exist, and it is no cowardly act to release something of this nature, but a service to those who believed in a band that did not compromise, and a wave goodbye to all. And yes, it is fucking heartbreaking.

And while I don’t believe the lyrics of the chorus today- I did at the time, which to me is a core ingredient to the music of MCR. And it is through that belief, and yours, that we were able to achieve many beautiful things.”

MCR’s new compilation, titled May Death Never Stop You, features tracks spanning their decade-long career, as well as Fake Your Death and a trio of demos taken from the band’s infamous Attic Demos.

“The title is fitting, because as sad as it was to say goodbye to the band, we look at this collection as a celebration of our best songs, and hope the memory of them continues to bring joy to you all as they have for us,” say the band in a statement. “We hope you take the journey with us into MCR’s past, and enjoy the small taste of what might have been.”

You can get May Death Never Stop You in a variety of formats, including as a Standard Digital Album (audio only) and as a Digital Deluxe Album (with audio and DVD content). It will also be released as a standard CD (excluding the DVD content); as a Physical Deluxe edition that includes the DVD; as a 180-gram vinyl two-LP set with a gatefold sleeve, plus the DVD; and as a DTC package, which includes a Thank You For The Venom t-shirt.

Lars Ulrich might be one of the most famous musicians in the universe – but that means jack shit to his kids.

“I get up very early in the morning,” he tells Bay Area station 107.7 The Bone. “Yes, I do drive my kids to school! And not just that, but I have to chaperone and drive on a field trip at 10am – we’re going to a sanitation facility. That’s another word for garbage dump. So there’s my glamourous morning.”

When he’s not messing around in garbage dumps, though, he has a few other priorities on the table – namely getting back on the road with Metallica, including a run of European dates where the fans are picking the setlist!

“We’re doing ‘Metallica By Request’,” he notes of the upcoming shows – the setlists of which can be picked at http://www.metallicabyrequest.com. “The fans put together the setlist – there’s a website that they go and vote on – and we and play it. It accomplishes a couple of things. Number one: it gets it off my back, I don’t have to sit and write the setlist. Even better, number two, because there’s always people complaining, when the fans complain about the setlist, they can only blame themselves!”